Read and paraphrase the following quotations. Express your opinion concerning the aphorisms.
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LEAD-IN
UNIT 1. LIFE IS WORK
Definitions
- Strengths – Factors that are likely to have a positive effect on (or be an enabler to) achieving the objectives of the 12-year schooling system (project)
- Weaknesses – Factors that are likely to have a negative effect on (or be a barrier to) achieving the objectives
- Opportunities – External Factors that are likely to have a positive effect on achieving or exceeding the objectives, or goals not previously considered
- Threats – External Factors and conditions that are likely to have a negative effect on achieving the objectives, or making the objective redundant or un-achievable.
| “Don't ask what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
(J.F. Kennedy)
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| “Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.”
(Kay Stepkin, US banker)
“The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.”
(Viddal Sassoon, British hair stylist)
“The most difficult things to handle are failure and success.”
(Unknown)
“A genius is one percent of aspiration and one hundred percent of perspiration.”
(Joseph Joubert)
“Always take a job that is too big for you.” (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Discuss the following questions.
· Are you ambitious? Why or why not?
· Do you have a career plan?
· Where do you want to be in 10 years time?
· What in your opinion is a successful career?
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